Amendment status not verified — confirm the current text below against the official source.
Where any surplus land is to be leased, it shall be leased to persons in the following order of priority :- ( i ) a person from whom any land held by him as tenant has been resumed by the landlord under section 9 of the Berar Regulation of Agricultural Leases Act, 1951 (M. P. Act XXIV of 1951) or under 1 [section 38 or 39] of this Act and as a consequence thereof whose total holding whether as tenure-holder or tenant or partly as tenure-holder and partly as tenant has been reduced to an area less than one family holding; ( ii ) Co-operative farming society, the members of which are agricultural labourers, landless persons or small holders or a combination of such persons; ( iii ) agricultural labourers; ( iv ) landless persons; ( v ) small holders; ( vi ) co-operative farming society of agriculturists (other than small holders) who hold either as tenure-holder or tenant or partly as tenure-holder and partly as tenant land less in area than a family holding and who are artisans; ( vii ) an agriculturist (other than a small holder) who holds either as tenure-holder or tenant or partly as tenure-holder and partly as tenant land less in area than a family holding and who is an artisan; ( viii ) any other co-operative farming society; ( ix ) any agriculturist who holds either as tenure-holder or as tenant or partly as tenure-holder and partly as tenant land larger in area than a family holding but less in area than three family holdings; ( x ) any person, not being an agriculturist who intends to take to the profession of agriculture.